If you read my “About” blurb, you know that part of my project for this blog is to relate my thoughts as I try to prioritize screening the most important…
(In light of what is going on in Gaza right now — at best a crimes against humanity ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, at worst outright genocide — I…
So, I finally screened Avatar: The Way of Water (2022, James Cameron). I must confess that I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it. To be more precise,…
First of all, let me stress that I love the Black Panther franchise and the world that has been created for it. I especially love the characters and their organic…
Every year I devote October to watching a lot of horror films. I love the horror genre even if I don’t like most of the horror films I watch. This…
Don’t Look Up (2021, Adam McKay) has gotten a lot of buzz in recent days and for good reason, it is that rare fiction film that actually addresses climate change…
A Brief Thought on Sofia Coppola To my mind, Sofia Coppola is one of the most underrated contemporary filmmakers creating films today. Excepting the highly lauded Lost in Translation, my…
To my mind, the science fiction genre is just simply the most important of all genres because it speaks to the human condition in the deepest way possible and in…
(I posted this post a few years ago; I thought I would revive it for the Christmas season.) Every Christmas, we get the token churning out of Frank Capra’s classic…
(I posted this post on my favorite Christmas films a couple of years ago; I thought I would revive it for the Christmas season. I had hoped to add a…